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National League
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Both leagues currently have 15 teams. The two league champions of 1903 arranged to compete against each other in the inaugural World Series, after the 1904 champions failed to reach a similar agreement, the two leagues formalized the World Series as an arrangement between the leagues. National League teams have won 48 of the 112 World Series contested from 1903 to 2016, the 2016 National League champions are the Chicago Cubs. By 1875, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players was dangerously weak, additionally, Hulbert had a problem—five of his star players were threatened with expulsion from the NAPBBP because Hulbert had signed them to his club using what were considered questionable means. Hulbert had a vested interest in creating his own league. After recruiting St. Louis privately, four western clubs met in Louisville, Kentucky, Boston Red Stockings, the dominant team in the N. A. Hartford Dark Blues from the N. A. Mutual of New York from the N. A. St. Louis Brown Stockings from the N. A, the only strong club from 1875 excluded in 1876 was a second one in Philadelphia, often called the White Stockings or Phillies. The first game in National League history was played on April 22,1876, at Philadelphias Jefferson Street Grounds, 25th & Jefferson, the new leagues authority was tested after the first season. The National League operated with six clubs during 1877 and 1878, over the next several years, various teams joined and left the struggling league. By 1880, six of the eight members had folded. The two remaining original NL franchises, Boston and Chicago, remain in operation today as the Atlanta Braves, in 1883 the New York Gothams and Philadelphia Phillies began National League play. Both teams remain in the NL today, the Phillies in their original city, the NL encountered its first strong rival organization when the American Association began play in 1882. The A. A. played in cities where the NL did not have teams, offered Sunday games and alcoholic beverages in locales where permitted, the National League and the American Association participated in a version of the World Series seven times during their ten-year coexistence. These contests were less organized than the modern Series, lasting as few as three games and as many as fifteen, with two Series ending in disputed ties, the NL won four times and the A. A. only once, in 1886. Starting with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1887, the National League began to raid the American Association for franchises to replace NL teams that folded and this undercut the stability of the A. A. Other new leagues that rose to compete with the National League were the Union Association, the Union Association was established in 1884 and folded after playing only one season, its league champion St. Louis Maroons joining the NL. The NL suffered many defections of star players to the Players League, the Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York franchises of the NL absorbed their Players League counterparts. The labor strife of 1890 hastened the downfall of the American Association, after the 1891 season, the A. A. disbanded and merged with the NL, which became known legally for the next decade as the National League and American Association

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Baker Bowl
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Baker Bowl is the best-known popular name of a baseball park that formerly stood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its formal name, painted on its wall, was National League Park. It was also known as Philadelphia Park or Philadelphia Base Ball Grounds / Park. It was on a city block bounded by N. Broad St. W. Huntingdon St. N. 15th St. and W. Lehigh Avenue, the ballpark was initially built in 1887. It was constructed by Phillies owners AJ Reach and John Rogers, the ballpark cost $80,000 and had a capacity of 12,500. At that time the media praised it as state-of-the-art, in that dead-ball era, the outfield was enclosed by a relatively low wall all around. Center field was close, with the railroad tracks running behind it. Later, the tracks were lowered and the field was extended over top of them, bleachers were built in left field, and over time various extensions were added to the originally low right field wall, resulting in the famous 60-foot fence. The ballparks second incarnation opened in 1895 and it was notable for having the first cantilevered upper deck in a sports stadium, and was the first ballpark to use steel and brick for the majority of its construction. By comparison, the Green Monster at Fenway Park is 37 feet high and 310 feet away, the Baker wall was a rather difficult task to surmount. The wall was an amalgam of different materials and it was originally a relatively normal-height masonry structure. When it became clear that it was too soft a home run touch, the barrier was extended upward using more masonry, wood, and a metal pipe-and-wire screen. The masonry in the part of the wall was extremely rough. The clubhouse was located above and behind the field wall. No batter ever hit a ball over the clubhouse, but Rogers Hornsby once hit a ball through a window, the ballpark, shoehorned as it was into the Philadelphia city grid, acquired a number of nicknames over the years. Baker Bowl is the name, and is nearly always referred to by that name in histories of the Phillies. The prosaic Philadelphia Baseball Grounds or Philadelphia Baseball Park was the often used by sportswriters prior to the Baker era

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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland

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William Baker (baseball)
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William Frazer Baker was the owner of the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League from 1913 through 1930. Baker was appointed New York City Police Commissioner in July 1909 by Mayor George B, during his brief tenure he was accused of interfering in gambling investigations. He resigned his position in October 1910, in January 1913, Baker was part of a group led by his nephew, William Locke, that purchased the club. Baker was elected president in October 1913, following the death of Locke earlier in the year. He was at the two years later when the Phillies played in the 1915 World Series. Baker was known for being extremely tight-fisted, for most of his tenure as owner, the Phillies had only one scout, and used a flock of sheep to trim the grass at Baker Bowl, which was named for him. He was so tight-fisted that he sold star pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander to the Chicago Cubs in 1917 rather than increase his salary, within a year, the Phillies had fallen to last place—the first of 15 straight years without a winning record. He died of an attack on December 4,1930 while attending a league meeting in Montreal and was succeeded as Phillies owner by Gerald Nugent. Philadelphia Phillies owners William Baker at Find a Grave

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Art Fletcher
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Arthur Fletcher was an American shortstop, manager and coach in Major League Baseball. Fletcher was associated with two New York City baseball dynasties, the Giants of John McGraw as a player, born in Collinsville, Illinois, he batted and threw right-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed 170 pounds. Fletcher came to the Giants in 1909 after only one season of minor league experience and he played in four World Series while performing for McGraw. Traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in the midst of the 1920 season, he retired after the 1922 campaign with 1,534 hits, Fletcher is the Giants career leader in being hit by pitches and ranks 21st on the MLB career list for the same statistic. In 1923 he replaced Kaiser Wilhelm as manager of the seventh-place Phillies and led the club through four losing seasons, in October 1926, he was replaced by Stuffy McInnis. On a tragic note, he served as the manager of Yankees for the last 11 games of the 1929 season when Huggins,50, was fatally stricken with erysipelas. Fletcher won six of those 11 games, to compile a career major league managing record of 237-383, Fletcher retired after the 1945 season and died from a heart attack in 1950 in Los Angeles California, at the age of 65. Arthur Fletcher Field, located in Collinsville, Illinois, is named for him, the field is home of the Collinsville High School Kahoks, the Collinsville Miners American Legion team, and the Collinsville Herr Travelers junior legion team. List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference The Dead Ball Era

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Philadelphia Phillies
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The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball franchise based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, the Phillies compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League East division. Since 2004, the home has been Citizens Bank Park. The Phillies have won two World Series championships and seven National League pennants, the first of which came in 1915, the franchise has also experienced long periods of struggle. The 77 season drought is the fourth longest World Series drought in Major League Baseball history, the longevity of the franchise and its history of adversity have earned it the dubious distinction of having lost the most games of any team in the history of American professional sports. Despite the teams lack of success historically, they are one of the more successful franchises since the start of the Divisional Era in Major League Baseball. The Phillies have won their division 11 times, which ranks 6th among all teams and 4th in the National League, the franchise was founded in Philadelphia in 1883, replacing the team from Worcester, Massachusetts in the National League. The teams spring training facilities are located in Clearwater, Florida and its Double-A affiliate is the Reading Fightin Phils, which plays in Reading, Pennsylvania, and its Triple-A affiliate is the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, which plays in Allentown, Pennsylvania. After being founded in 1883 as the Quakers, the changed its name to the Philadelphias. This was soon shortened to Phillies, Quakers continued to be used interchangeably with Phillies from 1883 until 1890, when the team officially became known as the Phillies. Player defections to the newly formed American League, especially to the cross-town Philadelphia Athletics, poor fiscal management after their appearance in the 1915 World Series, however, doomed the Phillies to sink back into relative obscurity, from 1918 to 1948 they only had one winning season. Though Chuck Klein won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1932 and the National League Triple Crown in 1933, after lumber baron William B. Cox purchased the team in 1943, the Phillies rose out of the standings cellar for the first time in five years. As a result, the fan base and attendance at home games increased, but it soon became clear that not all was right in Coxs front office. Eventually Cox revealed that he had been betting on the Phillies, the new owner, Bob Carpenter, Jr. scion of the Delaware-based DuPont family, tried to polish the teams image by unofficially changing its name to the Bluejays. However, the new moniker did not take, and it was dropped by 1949. This led to the advent of the Whiz Kids, led by a lineup of players developed by the Phillies farm system that included future Hall of Famers Richie Ashburn. In contrast, the Philadelphia Athletics finished last in 1950 and long-time manager Connie Mack retired, the team struggled on for four more years with only one winning season before abandoning Philadelphia under the Johnson brothers, who bought out Mack. They began play in Kansas City in 1955, as part of the deal selling that team to the Johnson brothers, the Phillies bought Shibe Park, where both teams had played since 1938

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Major League Baseball
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Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams now play in the National League and American League, the NL and AL operated as separate legal entities from 1876 and 1901 respectively. After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities since 1903, the merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000. The organization also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises about 240 teams affiliated with the Major League clubs, with the World Baseball Softball Confederation, MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament. Baseballs first professional team was founded in Cincinnati in 1869,30 years after Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the game of baseball, the first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one team or league to another. The period before 1920 in baseball was known as the dead-ball era, Baseball survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression, shortly after the war, baseballs color barrier was broken by Jackie Robinson. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of expansion for the AL and NL, then new stadiums, Home runs dominated the game during the 1990s, and media reports began to discuss the use of anabolic steroids among Major League players in the mid-2000s. In 2006, an investigation produced the Mitchell Report, which implicated many players in the use of performance-enhancing substances, today, MLB is composed of thirty teams, twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada. Baseball broadcasts are aired on television, radio, and the Internet throughout North America, MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 73 million spectators in 2015. MLB is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution and this document has undergone several incarnations since 1875, with the most recent revisions being made in 2012. Under the direction of the Commissioner of Baseball, MLB hires and maintains the sports umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, MLB maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of Minor League Baseball. This ruling has been weakened only slightly in subsequent years, the weakened ruling granted more stability to the owners of teams and has resulted in values increasing at double-digit rates. There were several challenges to MLBs primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last attempt at a new league was the aborted Continental League in 1960. The chief executive of MLB is the commissioner, Rob Manfred, the chief operating officer is Tony Petitti. There are five other executives, president, chief officer, chief legal officer, chief financial officer. The multimedia branch of MLB, which is based in Manhattan, is MLB Advanced Media and this branch oversees MLB. com and each of the 30 teams websites. Its charter states that MLB Advanced Media holds editorial independence from the league, MLB Productions is a similarly structured wing of the league, focusing on video and traditional broadcast media

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Spring training
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Practices andthe start of the regular season. Spring training allows new players to try out for roster and position spots, Spring training typically starts in mid-February and continues until just before Opening Day of the regular season, traditionally the first week of April. In some years, teams not scheduled to play on Opening Day will play spring training games that day, pitchers and catchers report to spring training first because pitchers benefit from a longer training period. A few days later, position players arrive and team practice begins, Spring training by major league teams in sites other than their regular season game sites first became popular in the 1890s and by 1910 was in wide use. Hot Springs, Arkansas has been called the birthplace of Spring Training baseball. The location of Hot Springs and the concept of getting the players ready for the season was the brainchild of Chicago White Stockings team President Albert Spalding. In 1886, the White Stockings traveled to Hot Springs to prepare for the upcoming season, practicing at the Hot Springs Baseball Grounds, the White Stockings had a successful season and other teams took notice and began holding spring training in Hot Springs. The Cleveland Spiders, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, Whittington Park/Ban Johnson Park, Majestic Park and Fogel Field were all built in Hot Springs to host Major League teams. Famously, a young pitcher named Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox was playing a game at first base on St. Patricks Day,1918. Ruth would hit two home runs that day in Hot Springs, and the second was a 573-foot shot that landed across the street from Whittington Park in a pond of the Arkansas Alligator Farm, soon he was playing the field more often. The First Boys of Spring is a 2015 documentary about Hot Springs Spring Training, the film was narrated by area native, actor Billy Bob Thornton, and produced by filmmaker Larry Foley. The documentary began airing nationally on the MLB Network in February,2016. The Detroit Tigers are credited with being the first team to conduct spring training camp in Arizona and they trained in Phoenix at Riverside Park at Central Avenue and the Salt River in 1929. The Philadelphia Phillies were the first of the current major-league teams to train in Florida, Spring training in Florida began in earnest in 1913, when the Chicago Cubs played in Tampa, and the Cleveland Indians in Pensacola. One year later, two teams moved to Florida for spring training, the real start of the Grapefruit League. Since 2010, major league teams have been divided during spring training. All but six of the league teams have gone to spring training in Florida at one time or another. Many of the most famous players in history have called Florida home for 4–6 weeks every spring. According to the autobiography of former Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck, in 1947, Veeck was the owner of the minor league Milwaukee Brewers and the team trained in Ocala, Florida

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LECOM Park
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LECOM Park is a baseball field located in Bradenton, Florida. Formerly known as McKechnie Field, it was named for Bradenton resident and baseball great Bill McKechnie, who led the Pirates in 1925 and he was also a coach of the Cleveland Indians in 1948. The stadium also hosts minor league games for the Bradenton Marauders. LECOM Parks nostalgic charms in its city neighborhood appeal to many baseball traditionalists and ballpark enthusiasts and its built in a Florida Spanish Mission style, with white stucco on the main grandstand and cover bleachers over the reserved seating section. The field is currently the oldest stadium used for spring training as well as the second-oldest in the Florida State League and it is also the third oldest stadium currently used by a major league team after Fenway Park, built in 1912, and Wrigley Field in 1914. The stadium also hosted an annual charity game between the Pirates and the State College of Florida, Manatee–Sarasota. Since 1979, members of the Boosters have volunteered as the Pirates spring training game-day staff, the booster clubs 120 members currently serve as ushers, program sellers, security personnel, merchandise sellers, and press box attendants throughout spring training season. Prior to its construction, the location was the site of Ninth Street Park. The site was also the home to the Manatee County fairgrounds as well as a local golf course. On December 9,1920, the Manatee County Board of Trade voted to bring major league baseball to the county in an attempt to stimulate the local economy, prior to the 1920s, no major league team played south of St. Petersburg. Breadon also owned a citrus grove inside the county and was familiar with the area, Beall then convinced Breadon to move the Cardinals from their training facility in Orange, Texas to Bradenton. As part of the agreement, Beall agreed to sell $2,000 in tickets for the exhibition games, in a joint venture between the Cardinals and the city, the ball field was constructed with a grandstand and bleachers for $2,000. The baseball field was just east of where LECOM Park stands today, on the site of the Bradenton Golf Club, a nine-hole golf course. So after completion, city engineers discovered that the second base, was 14 inches lower than home plate. However the park opened in 1923, the Commissioner of Baseball, Kenesaw Mountain Landis attended fields opening ceremonies. He was flown in on a biplane, which was piloted by Harry Land, the plane landed in what was the outfield at the time, a par 5 hole. In 1923, the grandstand sat 1,300 and 700 could easily occupy the bleachers, meanwhile, the fairground buildings were converted into makeshift locker rooms. The Bradenton Growers moved in and occupied LECOM Park, which was then named City Park, from 1923–24, the field was later renamed Ninth Street Park and then Braves Field

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Road (sports)
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A road game or away game is a sports game where the specified team is not the host and must travel to another venue. Most professional teams represent cities or towns and amateur sports teams often represent academic institutions, each team has a location where it practices during the season and where it hosts games. When a team is not the host, it must travel to games. Thus, when a team is not hosting a game, the team is described as the team, the visiting team, or the away team. The venue in which the game is played is described as the stadium or the road. The host team is said to be the home team, major sporting events, if not held at a neutral venue, are often over several legs at each teams home ground, so that neither team has an advantage over the other. Occasionally, the team may not have to travel very far at all to a road game. These matches often become local derbies, a few times a year, a road team may even be lucky enough to have the road game played at their own home stadium or arena. This is prevalent in college athletics where many schools will play in regional leagues or groundshare. The related term true road game has seen increasing use in U. S. college sports in the 21st century, while regular-season tournaments and other special events have been part of college sports from their creation, the 21st century has seen a proliferation of such events. These are typically held at sites, with some of them taking place outside the contiguous U. S. or even outside the country entirely. In turn, this has led to the use of true road game to refer to contests played at one home venue. In some association football leagues, particularly in Europe, the teams fans sit in their own section. Depending on the stadium, they will either sit in a designated section or be separated from the home fans by a cordon of police officers. However, in the leagues in England, supporters may be free to mix. When games are played at a site, for instance the FA Cup final in England which is always played at Wembley Stadium. This results in each team occupying one half of the stadium and this is different from other sports, particularly in North America, where very few fans travel to games played away from their home stadium. Home and away fans are not separated at these games

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Huck Betts
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Walter McKinley Huck Betts, born in Millsboro, Delaware, was a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Braves.93 ERA. He threw a fastball, a curveball, and a screwball, in 1980, Betts was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame. He died in his hometown at the age of 90, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference

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Hal Carlson
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Harold Gust Carlson was a professional baseball pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1917 to 1930, for the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and Pittsburgh Pirates. Carlson used his curveball exclusively, owing to his lack of speed and he played 7 years for the Pirates, going 42-55, went 42-48 in 4 years with the Phillies, and going 30-17 with the Cubs in four years. He had his most wins in 1926, with 17 and he had a career best 2.23 ERA in 1919. At 3,00 on May 28, Carlson was complaining of stomach pains,35 minutes after the team physician was called, Carlson died, just as they were moving him to the hospital. According to the physician, he died of a stomach hemorrhage and he left behind a wife and a child. Carlson is buried at Arlington Memorial Park Cemetery in Rockford, Illinois, list of baseball players who died during their careers Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference

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Clarence Mitchell (baseball)
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Clarence Elmer Mitchell was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played in the majors from 1911 to 1932 for the Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants, Brooklyn Robins, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals. Mitchell was known for throwing the spitball, and he was one of the 17 pitchers allowed to continue throwing the pitch after it was outlawed in 1920. Wambsganss was able to double up the runner, Pete Kilduff, who was still running toward third, then tagged out Otto Miller. Mitchell is the player in Major League history to hit into an unassisted triple play in a World Series. In his next at bat, Mitchell hit into a double play, Mitchell also has the distinction of being the last legal lefthanded spitball pitcher. After being released from the majors after the 1932 season at age 41, he played several years in the minors. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference

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Jimmy Ring
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James Joseph Jimmy Ring was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals. Ring was used sparingly by the Cincinnati Reds from 1917 to 1918 and he won 10 games in 1919, and beat Ed Cicotte and the Chicago White Sox in Game Four of the World Series on a five-hit, 2–0 shutout. He pitched again in Game Six, losing after allowing one run in five innings of relief. The next year he won 17 games, and was sent to the Philadelphia Phillies at the end of the season along with Greasy Neale in the trade that brought Eppa Rixey to Cincinnati. From 1921 to 1925 Ring averaged 12.8 wins per season, then, he was traded by the Phillies to the New York Giants before the 1927 season. After an 11–10 mark with the Giants, he was sent to the St. Louis Cardinals along with Frankie Frisch in exchange for Rogers Hornsby, Ring failed to win a game for St. Louis in 1927. He appeared in 13 games and had a 0–4 record, in 1928, his last major league season, he returned to the Phillies and had a 4–17 mark in 35 appearances. In a 12-season career, Ring posted a 118–149 record with 835 strikeouts, Jimmy Ring died in Queens, New York, aged 70. List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders Baseball Library Baseball Reference Retrosheet The Deadball Era

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Lew Wendell
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Lewis Charles Wendell was an American baseball player and team manager. Wendell was born March 22,1892, in New York City and he played as a catcher in Major League Baseball, with his first game in 1915. Wendells professional career began in 1912 with the minor league Albany Senators, after three seasons in the minors, Wendell made his MLB debut with the New York Giants in 1915. After playing in two games with the Giants in 1916, Wendell returned to the minors with the Louisville Colonels, Wendell finally made his way back to the majors in 1924 with the Philadelphia Phillies. Wendell played parts of three seasons with the Phillies, and his last MLB game was in 1926 and he returned to the minor leagues one more time, playing the rest of 1926 and all of 1927 with the Portland Beavers. He died July 11,1953 in Brooklyn, New York City and he is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference

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Jimmie Wilson (baseball)
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James Wilson, nicknamed Ace, was an American professional athlete in soccer and baseball. Wilson was the National Leagues starting catcher in baseballs first All-Star game, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wilson threw and batted right-handed and was listed at 6 ft 1 1⁄2 in tall and 200 pounds. Wilson, the son of Scottish immigrants, grew up in northeast Philadelphia and he left school when he was fourteen to work in a local textile mill. In 1919, he left the mills when he began playing as a forward with Philadelphia Merchant Ship B in the National Association Football League. During his time with the team, he met Dick Spalding, another two sport athlete, whom he hired as his first base coach when Wilson managed the Phillies. After Merchant Ship folded following the 1919-1920 season, Wilson moved to Bethlehem Steel F. C. signing with the team in July 1920, during his time in Bethlehem, he also played catcher for the steel companys baseball team which competed in the Steel League. In 1921, Wilson signed with Harrison F. C. in the newly established American Soccer League and he played thirteen league and three National Challenge Cup games, scoring four goals. During the 1922-1923 season, he played four games for Philadelphia Field Club before leaving the sport to concentrate on his baseball career, during his years playing first division soccer, Wilson also made a name for himself as an excellent baseball player. At present he is on the end of the battery for the New Haven team in the Eastern League. In February 1923, he gave up his career when he was traded from New Haven in the Eastern League to the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League for Stan Baumgartner. Wilsons National League playing career would stretch over 18 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals and he hit over.300 four times as a regular catcher and for his career batted.284 in 1,525 games. In 1928, he joined baseball history when he was traded by the Phillies to the Cardinals during a game between the two teams. According to one account, Wilson was a Phil for two innings, then darted into Redbird regalia, and sat on the St. Louis bench, after the 1933 season, he was traded back to the Phillies for fellow catcher Spud Davis and infielder Eddie Delker. From 1934 through 1938, he was the player-manager of his hometown Phillies and he guided the Phils to three seventh place and two eighth place finishes, in his final season, Philadelphia lost 103 of 149 games. He then joined the Cincinnati coaching staff in 1939 and played four games that season. In August 1940, the Reds were stunned when Willard Hershberger, backup catcher to future Baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Lombardi, the 40-year-old Wilson came off the coaching lines and joined the active roster, serving as the clubs third catcher behind Lombardi and rookie Bill Baker. He played three games in August, but then in September Lombardi injured his ankle, and Wilson was pressed into starting duty, splitting time with Baker and Dick West, Wilson played in 16 games during the pennant race, batting.243. The following season, Wison resigned as manager of the Cubs after the team followed up an opening day victory with nine straight defeats to open the season and he was replaced by Roy Johnson for one game before Charlie Grimm took over as manager of the Cubs

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Lew Fonseca
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While not a power hitter, he hit for average and was a good contact hitter for most of his career. His success was short-lived, however, as he broke his arm in 1930, fonseca is perhaps best known as one of the first men to use film in analyzing baseball games and finding flaws in players. It is said that his interest with cameras began while shooting Slide, Kelly, as manager of the Chicago White Sox, he used film extensively. After retiring from playing the game, he was director of promotions for both leagues, fonseca was batting coach for the Chicago Cubs for many years, until quite late in life. His daughter Carolynn was an actress who worked mostly out of Rome. Fonseca died in Ely, Iowa at age 90, one month after the Loma Prieta earthquake hit near his birthplace of Oakland, List of Major League Baseball batting champions List of Major League Baseball player–managers Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference

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Walter Holke
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Walter Henry Holke was a first baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the New York Giants, Boston Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Holke holds the record for the most put-outs by an infielder in a game, with 46 during a 26-inning game between the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers on May 1,1920. Holke played for the Giants in the 1917 World Series against the Chicago White Sox and his double drove in the first run of Game 3 at the Polo Grounds, which the Giants won 2-0. In 1923, his first season playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, Holke had a career-high 175 hits and he finished his career two years later with a total of 1,278 hits. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference